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My iOS app “TaskCal: Task Manager” (version 1.2.8) has been stuck in “Waiting for Review” for more than 3 weeks, and I’m not sure what else I can do at this point. I’d like to know if there’s anything wrong with my submission, or if there’s any other way to get more clarity from App Review. Here are the key dates (GMT+8): Jan 30, 2026 – Version 1.2.3 was approved and marked “Ready for Distribution”. Jan 31 – Feb 8, 2026 – I submitted version 1.2.8 multiple times. Several submissions were later marked as “Removed” in App Store Connect. Feb 9, 2026, 12:39 AM – I submitted version 1.2.8 again. This submission has been in “Waiting for Review” ever since. Today is Mar 3, 2026 (Taipei time) – The status is still “Waiting for Review” with no change. Because of this, I contacted Apple Developer Support multiple times through Contact Support. I only received one reply, on Feb 21, 2026, which said: Hello Alan, Thank you for reaching out to Developer Support about your app, “TaskCal: Task Manager.” I understand that you’re concerned. After reviewing your app’s submission history, I can confirm that your app is still in the “Waiting for Review” status as of February 8th 2026. To address your concern about the duration of the review, I’ve contacted the review team to bring this to their attention. At this time, there’s no further action required from your end. If the review team needs any additional information to complete the review, they’ll reach out to you directly. We appreciate your patience during this process. Your case number is 20000107493507. Stephanie Developer Support Since then, there has been no visible progress and no follow‑up messages. The App Review page still shows: Version: iOS 1.2.8 Status: Waiting for Review Case ID: 20000107493507 I completely understand that review times can vary, but: My previous version (1.2.3) was reviewed and approved normally. This is a relatively small productivity app with no major policy changes. It’s been over 3 weeks in “Waiting for Review” for this specific submission, with multiple earlier submissions of the same version being “Removed” without clear explanation in the UI. My questions: Is there anything I may have done wrong in the submission process (for example, causing multiple “Removed” submissions) that could block or delay this review? Is there any other official channel I can use to get more clarity beyond contacting Developer Support (which only confirmed that it’s “Waiting for Review”)? Has anyone here experienced a similar long “Waiting for Review” state recently, and if so, how was it resolved? I’m worried that there might be some issue with this build or with my account that I’m not seeing in App Store Connect. At the same time, I don’t want to keep canceling and re‑submitting if that could make the situation worse. Any advice from Apple or other developers who have gone through something similar would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Alan

Can't able to run the Create ML for training and I upgraded to MacOS 26.3 beta and I have tried older and newer

Hi, We're experiencing a WKWebView issue where the screen intermittently turns pure magenta (#FF00FF) in our production iOS app. After investigation, we traced this to WebKit's internal WKCompositingView.mm where [UIColor magentaColor] is used as a pending state indicator when coverView.hidden == NO. This matches rdar://163597990 / WebKit Bug 303157 ("Magenta flash when loading page"), which was fixed in commit 303720@main on 2025-12-01 via PR #54499. My question is simple: which iOS/Safari release includes this fix? We're on iOS 26.3 and still seeing the issue. We need to know: Is the fix already in iOS 26.3? (If so, there may be another unfixed code path) If not, which upcoming iOS version will include it? Our environment iOS 26.3, iPhone 15 Pro Max WKWebView with complex web content App codebase contains zero magenta color usage — this is purely from WebKit Related rdar://163597990 Bug 303157 — RESOLVED FIXED Bug 230531 — "Pages render as magenta after being in background" PR #54499 — Merged to main 2025-12-01 Any information about the release timeline would be very helpful. Thanks!

I was having an issue with the new xcode and was forced to to go back to to Xcode 26.0.1. ( I need iOS simulators for mobile testing and as Developer I know is using this version with no problems). I've always install xcode from the app store with no issue so installing from Apple Dev was something new for me so So I did the following downloaded Xcode 26.0.1 Extracted it from Xzip added the extracted Xcode version to the applications folder click the Xcode icon Expected result I was expecting to see text i could install Xcode version Actual Result Xcode opened Asked me to create a project When project was created I saw Question. What did I do wrong? How do I fix it?

Dear Apple Developer Support Team, I am writing to formally escalate an issue regarding my Apple Developer Program enrollment. On February 23rd, I completed the $100 enrollment payment for an Individual Apple Developer account. The amount has been successfully debited from my card, and I have received official payment confirmation emails from Apple confirming receipt of the funds. However, as of today (March 3rd), my account still reflects that payment needs to be completed, and the enrollment remains inactive. This is my first-time enrollment as an individual developer. Given that payment has already been processed and acknowledged by Apple, I am concerned about the lack of activation and the absence of any communication regarding the delay. Additionally, I have submitted multiple support requests over the past five days but have not received any response or update. This delay is affecting my development and release timelines. I kindly request: Immediate confirmation of payment reconciliation on your end Clarification on the current status of my enrollment An estimated timeline for activation Escalation of this case to the appropriate billing or developer enrollment team Please let me know if any further documentation (transaction ID, invoice number, Apple ID details) is required from my side. I would appreciate your urgent assistance in resolving this matter. Kind regards, Gowtham Potureddi

Anyone else experiencing crazy delays right now? Submitted an update (bug fixes, nothing major) 13 days ago. It was "Waiting for Review" for 10 days, and now it’s been "In Review" for 3 days. No messages from Apple, no rejection, just silence. Normally my apps go through in 1-2 days. Is there a backlog right now or something? Should I keep waiting or appeal? Anyone got stuck like this recently?

After my beta internal testers receive the App Store Connect invitation and tap to accept, the TestFlight email with download link is taking DAYS to arrive. Apple, you need to look at the provisioning servers. This experience can deter Apple developers.

In my tabview i set a safeAreaBar topPanel, under i have contentview. That ignore safeArea.top so feed go under. What is the best Way to have a the first post in content appear under (under the bottom) if the safeareabar. I use list with foreach. Do we measure the height or is it some smart tips?

Hello, We have been trying to contact the Apple Developer Support for some time now regarding a couple of issues. For a couple of months now we are seeing that we are getting an error when we visit https://developer.apple.com/contact and the topics aren't loaded at all. After seeing the network traffic in the developer tools I see that we get a "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)" when making a request to the services/userProfile/ endpoint. The weird part is that the response contains our userProfile just fine. The only thing that I see in the payload that could be an issue is the resultCode that is 0. Has anyone encountered this before or has any idea on what we can do? I don't see an alternative way to contact Apple in order to resolve this issue.

I am writing to formally inquire about the status of my app update (App ID: 1598115292), which has been in the “Waiting for Review” stage since February 12. This review period is longer than I have previously experienced, and I would greatly appreciate any clarification regarding the delay. I had also contacted support earlier regarding this matter but have not yet received a response. I kindly request that you provide an estimated timeframe for when the update is expected to be reviewed and made available on the App Store.

100% new here, and probably trying to jump the gun here. I've released my 1st build to TestFlight for some people to test, but till now the app is still under review. Does it always take this long (day 4 now) for a 1st build to be reviewed, or am I missing something here?

Hi, I submitted my Swift Student Challenge 2026 app and I'm worried about a build error I got when testing. I have both PlateClassifier_2.mlmodel and PlateClassifier_2.mlmodelc in my Sources folder. Only the .mlmodelc is listed in my Package.swift resources. When building I got: PlateClassifier_2.mlmodel: No predominant language detected. Set COREML_CODEGEN_LANGUAGE to preferred language. Build failed — 1 error Will judges hit this same error? Does having an unlisted .mlmodel alongside the .mlmodelc cause a hard build failure on other machines too, or is this specific to my setup (Xcode 26.2 beta, building to physical device)? Will this get me instantly disqualified? Any help appreciated.

I recently got a new iPhone for my mom so that she could have Assistive Access due to her declining cognitive health. I selected the family members she calls the most as her favorites, but when attempting to call some of said family members (myself included), nothing happens. It works for about half the contacts, and not for the other half. I’m her main caregiver so it’s pretty ironic that I’m one of the ones it doesn’t work with. I’ve tried exiting and re-entering Assistive Access, deleting and re-adding all the contacts, restarting the phone, force-restarting the phone, and checking if the iOS is the most recent update (it is). Nothing works. Please help.

Hello, I'm desperately seeking your help here. I submitted an app for review, on Feb 16th, it's still sitting at Waiting for review status. I raised a follow-up ticket on Feb 20th, inquiring about the status of the review. Auto response was a feedback will be given by email in 2 business days. It's been now more than 10 business days, no feedback on the ticket. I raised a new one today. I really cannot understand why this is taking so long, while I'm told by other friends around me that this usually doesn't take more than a week max. Please help!! I'm losing all credibility with my potential customers and users at the moment because of this delay.

Hello, My app, Beezzy - Agenda Digital, had an Expedited Review request approved recently (confirmation received via email). However, the status remains stuck in 'Waiting for Review' for an unusual amount of time, even for an expedited process. This update is critical for our operations and addresses urgent fixes. Has anyone else experienced a delay between the expedited approval and the actual 'In Review' transition lately? Is there any additional step required from the developer side to trigger the priority queue? App ID: 6751509489 Thank you for any guidance.

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Hi, posting here since I cannot get in touch with anyone through Support. I've sent few requests in a week but never heard back. I am trying to get the app 6745905294 approved from the Review team. The last blocker is that This app duplicates the content and functionality of other apps on the App Store This turns out to be because I used to have this app under a different team 3 years ago (app number 1592985083). The app was already out of the store in a long time since I didn't renew that team membership but apparently that's not enough. The Review team suggested me to Remove the old app. But...I can't. Please see the screenshot attached Any idea what can I do? I am completely blocked. I want to submit the app in the store with the new team I am in. The Review team says it can't help me. The Appstore Connect Support team doesn't reply Thanks, Alessandro

I'm using MusicKit for DRM track playback in my iOS app and a third party library to play local user-owned music on the file system and from the music library. This app is also supporting accessory devices that offer Bluetooth remote media control. The wish is to achieve parity between how the remote interacts with user owned music and the DRM / cloud / Apple Music tracks in my application music player. Track navigation, app volume (rather than system volume), and scrubbing need to work consistently on a mix of tracks which could alternate DRM and cloud status within one album or playlist. Apple Music queue and track pickers are not useful tools in my app. How can I support playing DRM and Apple Music tracks while not surrendering the remote control features to the system?

With Xcode 26.3, and beta 26.4 (under macOS 26.4 Beta (25E5223i)) my loaded platforms for canvas and simulators keep disappearing. Try to add platforms, and the download just sits there.

All of our uses of CFSockets have started causing crashes in iOS 16. They seem to be deprecated so we are trying to transition over to using the Network framework and NWConnection to try to fix the crashes. One of our uses of them is to ping a device on the local network to make sure it is there and online and provide a heartbeat status in logs as well as put the application into a disabled state if it is not available as it is critical to the functionality of the app. I know it is discouraged to disable any functionality based on the reachability of a resource but this is in an enterprise environment where the reachability of this device is mission critical. I've seen other people ask about the ability to ping with the Network framework and the answers I've found have said that this is not possible and pointed people to the SimplePing sample code but it turns out our existing ping code is already using this technique and it is crashing just like our other CFSocket usages, inside CFSocketInvalidate with the error BUG IN CLIENT OF LIBPLATFORM: Trying to recursively lock an os_unfair_lock. Is there any updated way to perform a ping without using the CFSocket APIs that now seem to be broken/unsupported on iOS 16?